Explicit Limit Results for Minimal Sufficient Statistics and Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Some Markov Processes: Exponential Families Approach
若干马尔可夫过程的极小充分统计量与极大似然估计量的显式极限结果:指数族方法
Finite-state Markov chains with either a discrete or continuous time parameter, Markov renewal processes and Markov-additive processes are considered. We prove that their likelihood functions, in the nonsequential as well as in various sequential cases, belong to special $(n + k, n)$-curved exponential families in general, for which limit results are easily established. Subsequently, asymptotic normality of the corresponding nonsequential and sequential maximum likelihood…